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27th October 2018 - Anglezarke Moor

Walk Details

​Distance walked: 8.6 miles

Total ascent: 1362 ft

OS map used: 287 - West Pennine Moors

Time taken: 4.5 hrs

Route description: White Coppice-Stronstrey Bank-Moor Road-Jepson's Gate-Lead Mines Clough-Lower Hempshaw's-Higher Hempshaw's-Hordern Pasture-Spitlers Edge-Great Hill-Drinkwaters-White Coppice


There's a fine autumn weekend forecast but it's going to windy, so I've not planned on going too high up. I've got a long walk to do tomorrow but I couldn't resist heading out this morning for a local outing on Anglezarke Moor. There was quite a lot of high cloud around when I set off from White Coppice so the sunshine was pretty hazy but this gradually moved away as sunnier skies came in. The first cold weather of the season has definitely arrived, the wind up on the moor had a real chill to it and ice on the puddles showed how cold it was last night.

From where I parked in White Coppice I walked past the cricket club ground and crossed The Goit to take the footpath south beneath Stronstrey Bank to Moor Road. I then walked up Moor Road until I reached a sharp right hand bend where I took the bridleway from Jepson's Gate down to Lead Mines Clough. After crossing Limestone Brook I followed a track east across the hillside until it reached the ruins of Lower and Higher Hempshaw's and the path up to Horden Pasture. The moorland stretch of the walk came next as I headed north over Spitlers Edge to Great Hill. The path west from Great Hill took me back down to White Coppice.

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Walking past the ground of White Coppice Cricket Club
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Autumn colour below Stronstrey Bank
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Views west towards the coast from Moor Road...
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Onto the bridleway from Jepson's Gate to Lead Mines Clough
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Limestone Brook in Lead Mines Clough
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Winter Hill..
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..and Anglezarke Moor ahead from the footpath up to Hordern Pasture
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Looking back towards Lead Mines Clough as I reach Hordern Pasture
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Heading for Spitlers Edge
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Great autumn colours on Anglezarke Moor
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Looking back with Winter Hill behind me
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It's a bit chilly up here
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Holcombe Moor and Turton Heights in the distance to the east
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Darwen Moor and Longworth Moor
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Great Hill as I reach the northern end of Spitlers Edge. Those distant hills are the Forest of Bowland.
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A flagged path makes for easy going
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Approaching Great Hill
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On the summit of Great Hill with its cross shelter
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With the great visibility today there's a fantastic view. To the north, the Forest of Bowland.
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and to its left, in the far distance I can make out the distinctive outline of Black Combe in the Lake District
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To the northeast is Blackburn and Pendle Hill
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I can make out Ingleborough in the distance through the gap between the Forest of Bowland and Pendle Hill
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Darwen Moor and Longworth Moor
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Winter Hill to the south
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Another shot looking north across Withnell Moor
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Dean Black Brook and the bulk of Anglezarke Moor
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Heading for White Coppice
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Wheelton Moor and Withnell Moor
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Looking back to Great Hill
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Great autumn colours as I make my final descent to White Coppice..
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A final shot of one of the fishing lodges at White Coppice

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